page_title: Almoez Ali
section_title: 2019 AFC Asian Cup
hierarchical_section_title: Almoez Ali / International career / 2019 AFC Asian Cup
caption_attribution_description: English: Qatar-United Arab Emirates 2019 AFC Asian Cup semi-final match
context_page_description: Almoez Ali Zainalabiddin Abdullah is a Sudanese-born Qatari professional footballer who plays for Qatar and Al-Duhail in the Qatar Stars League as a forward. He is a member of the Qatar national team which helped the team to win 2019 AFC Asian Cup. He holds the record of most goals scored in an AFC Asian Cup, scoring nine in the 2019 edition.
context_section_description: He was selected for Qatar's squad in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. He found the net in his team's first group stage game against Lebanon. In the next game against North Korea, he scored a four goals in a span of 51 minutes, the second fastest time to four goals after Iranian Ali Daei, who scored four goals in 23 minutes against South Korea in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup.
  The following match, against Saudi Arabia, he increased his tally in the competition to seven goals after scoring both goals in the 2–0 win. In doing so, he became the joint-top scorer in the AFC Asian Cup Group Stage, sharing the record with Ali Daei of Iran, Choi Soon-ho of South Korea and Naohiro Takahara of Japan. He also broke Mansour Muftah's all-time record of five goals scored for the Qatar national team in the AFC Asian Cup.
  In the semi-final against United Arab Emirates, Ali scored his eighth goal of the competition in a 4–0 win, equalling Ali Daei's mark established in 1996 as the most goals scored in a single AFC Asian Cup edition. He broke that record in the following game after scoring the opening goal with a bicycle kick at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup Final match against Japan.
caption: Ali celebrating after scoring a goal against UAE in 2019 AFC Asian Cup semi-final.
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